[ale] Upgrading Redhat rpms

[Eric Z. Ayers]

Tory,

When faced with this dilemma, there are usually 1 of two things I
usually do:

1) upgrade all the rpms on the same command line.  That seems to work
most of the time.

2) Sometimes, you get an rpm that was prepared by someone other than
Red Hat or Red Hat changes their scheme, so that different parts are
in different packages.  In this case, I either uninstall the old, like 
you did, or upgrade with the --force  command line.  Damn the
torpedos!

-Eric.

Tory Deron writes:
 > I have downloaded several rpm updates and began to install them.  As I
 > began the upgrade process I ran into several rpms that refused to upgrade
 > because the old package was part of a dependancy for a package I had not
 > upgraded.  So, I uninstalled the dependant package, and then installed the
 > new one, etc, etc.  I'm sure you can imagine that this became quite an
 > ordeal as I got further into it.
 > 
 > Can anyone give me some recomendations about the best way to handle this?
 > Is it okay to just force the upgrade, or would that break the dependancies
 > and cause other problems down the road?  Has anyone found a method that
 > might work better?  Is there a FAQ or document somewhere that I don't know
 > about?  
 > 
 > As always, thanks for any help.
 > 
 > Tory Deron
 > tory at cauldron.net